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The premise of the Culturize Journal is simple–to inspire you to become the best version of you. I hope it serves as a practical reflection tool to remind you what you said you were going to do for students and staff when you sat in that interview chair. The Journal is also a guidebook to taking action steps based on the ideas found in my best-selling books, including the Washington Post Award Winner, Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes. 

Each part of this journal is intended to help you plan and organize your month, week, and daily work. Here is what you will find in your Culturize Journal to guide that important work:

  • Core Principles

  • Monthly Impact

  • I Am Grateful For

  • Who I Want to Be

  • Weekly Impact

  • Weekly Quote

The Culturize Journal serves a purpose for professional educators everywhere. It is a guidebook that will make you think, but more importantly, make you feel inspired to be more and do more than you ever thought possible.

CULTURIZE JOURNAL

  • Daily Calendar

  • We Cause the Culture

  • Question Box 

  • Impact Tasks

  • Connections

  • Culture Checkpoints

WORDS ON THE WALL: CULTURIZING YOUR CLASSROOM FOR OBSERVABLE IMPACT 

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"Words on the Wall by Jimmy Casas and Cale Birk is the perfect expansion pack to Culturize your classroom. Building on the tenets from Casas’s first book Culturize, readers will find inspiration, relevant examples, and strategies to operationalize culture at the classroom level. In essence, we are invited to not only talk the talk but walk the walk. And we are reminded that culture is intentional and with thoughtful checkpoints, anyone can start to culturize their classroom.

|| Laura Williams || 21st Century Learning Specialist

RECALIBRATE THE CULTURE: OUR WORK…OUR WHY…OUR VALUES

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Jimmy Casas has captured the essence of solution-based leadership and the excellence that can exist in education. Recalibrate the Culture is prescriptive, timeless, and relevant to every school district that wants to go from a culture of surviving to thriving.

|| Clint Pulver || Emmy Award-Winning Speaker and Best Selling Author of I Love It Here

Culturize - Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes. 

"For all those committed to improving student performance, Culturize is a must read! The International Center for Leadership in Education's ongoing studies of the nation's most rapidly improving schools have found that the single most important lesson we have learned is that "culture trumps strategy." The culture in these schools is anchored first and foremost on students, not simply on standards. School improvement begins by creating relationships. These relationships enable us to determine what is relevant to each student. Relevance then enables us to achieve academic rigor with our students. In Culturize, Jimmy Casas tells us how to set this in motion. It should be a handbook for all educators."

lI Dr. Bill Dagget I| Founder and Chairman, International Center for Leadership in Education

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HANDLE WITH CARE-Managing Difficult Situations in Schools with dignity and respect

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Best-selling author Jimmy Casas and Joy Kelly share powerful and relevant stories in Handle with Care – Managing Difficult Situations in Schools with Dignity and Respect. They remind us that the heart and soul of a healthy culture begins and ends with the way we handle all members of a school community with care, grace, and dignity. This book is filled with heartfelt, practical advice and will serve as a reflection guide for educators for years to come.

II Jon Gordon II Best-Selling Author of The Energy Bus and The Power of Positive Leadership 

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Daily Inspiration for Educators – POSITIVE THOUGHTS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR: Volume ii

Daily Inspiration for Educators is intended to offer hope, validation and inspiration to some of the most inspiring people I know; hard working education professionals. They are a collection of my daily Thoughts for the Day taken from my Twitter feed over the last three years. My hope is that these timeless messages will serve as a resource that motivates and inspires educators during times of joy as well as when things get tough, as we know they will periodically in a profession as important and challenging as ours.

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Culturize and Live Your Excellence Action Guides

These Action Guides are a tool intended to help educators take an honest look at what it means to invest in, influence, and improve their overall school culture in order to inspire one another to bring and give their very best every day both personally and professionally. By taking content from both Culturize and Live Your Excellence and organizing them into such a way that provokes discussion, reflection and--most of all--action, educators serving in schools and districts everywhere will find this companion guide to be a valuable resource for professional growth for their teams. 

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Live Your Excellence - Bring your best self to school every day 

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"What can you do to achieve excellence as an educator and inspire it in your students and staff every single day? In this outstanding book, Jimmy Casas answers that question with refreshing honesty and insight. Reflecting on experiences from his long career as a classroom teacher and school administrator, he shows you the what, why, and how of investing in yourself, your students, and your staff so that, together, you all can move beyond compliance to flourishing- something desperately needed in schools today.”

|| Manny Scott || Original Freedom Writer, Author, Speaker

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Stop. Right. Now. - 39 Stops to Making Schools Better 

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“Stop. Right. Now. should be required reading for all educators and administrators wanting to make a difference in the lives of students. Casas and Zoul will challenge your thinking, enhance your teaching, and impact the way you lead with these 39 STOPS to Making Schools Better. Each STOP is paired with insight and direction on how to do better. What a rare and powerful combination of inspiration and practical application! This book should be in the hands of every educator and administrator in your district. Clear your to-do list; these are the 39 tasks needed to revolutionize education.”

|| Kelly Croy || Director of Innovation & Instruction at Port Clinton City Schools

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Start. Right. Now. – Teach and Lead for Excellence

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“Few books on education leadership are as mindful of their intended audience as this one is. Clear, convincing, and ceaselessly practical, Start. Right. Now. is soon to be a favored text in schools of education leadership. The collective brain trust among Casas, Whitaker, and Zoul is a national treasure to be referenced for years to come. Deeply professional and far from indifferent, the authors provide insight and principles for teachers and their leaders to confront professional hypocrisy, demonstrate deep knowledge in their daily practice, analyze and reflect on the effectiveness of actions, then revise practices based on those reflections. Tightly written, research infused, and including the voices of many of my favorite rising heroes in education, Casas, Whitaker, and Zoul answer the hard questions of education leadership, including how to do lead both formally and informally, the dynamic, fluid nature of excellence, the synergy between teaching and leading, responding to the “no time” issue, planning for the future while attending to the present, and answering the plea, “show me what it looks like,” definitively. The content is so inspiring, in fact, we have no choice but to drop the book and take action in our own schools.” 

|| Rick Wormeli || Author of Fair Isn’t Always Equal, Columnist, and Educator

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What Connected Educators Do Differently

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“The brilliance of this book lies in the stories that illustrate the countless reasons why educators should be connected in online and global–not just local–communities of practice. The Follow 5, Find 5, and Take 5 sections at the end of each chapter are fantastic!”

|| Dr. Scott McLeod || Associate Professor, Educational Leadership, University of Colorado Denver

“Educators are sharing and connecting more than ever–with students, with parents and community members, and with each other. How well we do our jobs has become ever-more dependent on the quality of our connectedness and communications. What Connected Educators Do Differently raises the bar for how these connections need to happen, and for how they can radically improve what we’re doing for students.” 

|| Angela Maiers || nationally-recognized speaker and consultant on 21st century teaching, and coauthor of The Passion-Driven Classroom

“Todd, Jeff, and Jimmy share an insight on more than being a “connected” educator, but on learning and making a difference for the reader and others. Their enthusiasm throughout the book is contagious, but it is their practical and simple steps that they share from both their experience and research that will make a world of difference in your practice, ultimately leading to better learning opportunities for yourself, and your students.”

|| George Couros || internationally-recognized thought leader and a Division Principal of Innovative Teaching and Learning in Alberta, Canada 

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